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Make a project read only?

Explorer ,
Aug 07, 2020 Aug 07, 2020

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I've heard and read that if you don't want to use templates, you can instead set a regular .cptx project to read-only so that users are forced to do a save as and make a copy, thus protecting the original file. How exactly do you do that?

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Advisor , Aug 07, 2020 Aug 07, 2020

You can  right-click on your project file and choose Properties - then select the box shown.

 

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Community Expert , Aug 07, 2020 Aug 07, 2020

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This if for Windows

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You can  right-click on your project file and choose Properties - then select the box shown.

 

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Oh, of course. I was looking in Captivate but it's a Windows setting.
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